Sentences with phrase «type of cell known»

A new study conducted by researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology suggests that a specific type of cell known as a speed cell allow individuals to moderate how fast or how slow they move.

At that key point, Takebe added two more types of cell known to help to recreate organ - like function in animals: endothelial cells, which line blood vessels, taken from an umbilical cord; and mesenchymal cells, which can differentiate into bone, cartilage or fat, taken from bone marrow.

There are two types of cells know as the earlywood cells which have thin walls and latewood which have thicker walls and are packed closer together.

Not exact matches

In reality, the lifeform belongs to a separate class of life known as Archaea, a type of single - celled organism that typically thrives in harsh environments.

Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true God.

No, you say that microscopic human life is worthless in sperm and sacred when combined with a different type of cell a couple inches away.

Monica knew from the start that he wanted to use a different type of foam than the black, open - celled polyurethane that is standard among competitor models.

CD4 cells (also known as T4 or helper T cells) are lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell), which are important in immune responses.

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(borrowed from Dr Kitty) Breech Twins and higher order multiples Previous CS Pre-Eclampsia Placenta praevia Cervical incompetence Previous late stillbirth Previous premature birth Grand multiparty Age under 18 Age over 35 Smoking Drug use Severe mental health issue Epilepsy Type 1 diabetes Type 2 diabetes Gestational diabetes Asthma GBS positive Abnormal antibodies Transplant recipient Congenital heart disease Known foetal abnormality Immunosuppressive medication MS Physical disability Intellectual disability Hypothyroidism Hyperthyroidism Previous shoulder dystocia Previous 3rd or 4th degree tear Sickle Cell anaemia BMI under 18 or over 35 at conception Previous massive PPH APH in current pregnancy HIV / AIDS Hepatitis B or C Active TB IUGR Oligohydramnios Polyhydramnios Child previously removed from custody because of abuse Uterine abnormalities such as uterine septum or double uterus Previous uterine surgery for fibroids Chronic renal problems Hypertension Auto immune condition Previous stroke or blod clot Cancer Domestic violence or abusive home Prisoners Homeless women

A type of immune therapy known as PD - 1 blockade controlled cancer in 77 percent of patients with defects in DNA mismatch repair — the system cells use to spell - check and fix errors in DNA (SN Online: 10/7/15).

We now know the virus attacks a person's T lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that plays a central role in the immune system.

Further ahead, he is looking to an emerging technology known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), in which adult cells are reprogrammed to be like embryonic stem cells so they can transform into any type of cell.

The scientists zeroed in on a type of immune cell called regulatory T - cells, which were known to suppress autoimmune responses.

Neutrophils are one of the most common types of immune cells and known to engulf microorganisms, but they are not normally associated with peripheral nerve damage, such as that caused by diabetes or trauma.

«We know that CEP63 depletion leads to problems during meiosis, a specialized type of cell division that is required for male germ cells to produce sperm,» explains Stracker.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

In this study, the research team used a new technique developed at the University of North Carolina to study a type of glial cell known as an astrocyte.

Now we know how it does this: its active ingredient targets a newly discovered type of cell that lowers the immune response.

The data that the breast cancer cells spread more successfully in clumps are compelling, D'Souza - Schorey said, but no one yet knows whether cells from other types of cancer also need help to migrate.

The science is still too new to know for sure which types of stem cells will be best suited to which kinds of research and treatments.

The researchers believe the hammerhead shark reproduced by a type of asexual reproduction called automictic parthenogenesis, whereby an unfertilised egg is activated to behave as a normal fertilised egg by a small, nearly genetically identical cell known as the sister polar body.

«For this reason, we decided to combine vitamin C with a PARP inhibitor, a drug type known to cause cancer cell death by blocking the repair of DNA damage, and already approved for treating certain patients with ovarian cancer.»

One way to get many types of cells or proteins from the same genetic starting material is by mixing and matching different parts of one gene to produce multiple gene readouts, a phenomenon known as alternative splicing.

Another group of T cells, known as regulatory T cells or Tregs, are known to temper type 2 responses, thereby suppressing the allergic response.

Type 1 diabetes, formerly known as juvenile diabetes, is characterized by the immune system's destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas.

The four children also had more of the types of species that are known to trigger gut inflammation, a possible prelude to type - 1 diabetes, in which the body's immune system mistakenly produces antibodies that attack and destroy the beta cells of the pancreas that normally make insulin.

Dr Matthew Hobbs, Head of Research for Diabetes UK, said: «We know that preserving or restoring even relatively small levels of insulin secretion in Type 1 diabetes can prevent hypoglycaemia (low glucose levels) and reduce complications and therefore much research has focused on ways to make new cells that can be transplanted into the body.

Most cancer vaccines developed to date have been designed to recognize and attack a specific known molecule — such as a cell - surface receptor — that is likely to be found on cancerous cells in any patient with that type of tumor.

Zhao, Chen and colleagues found that these gastrin - dependent peptide receptor - expressing cells also express a type of serotonin receptor known as the 1A receptor.

This inflammatory environment drove both natural regulatory T cells and another type of T cell to develop into T helper 2 (T H2) cells, which are known to trigger inflammation during allergic reactions.

It should be noted that this study was conducted with healthy young individuals, to reduce the confounding influence of insulin resistance, beta - cell dysfunction, and medications, so more research is required to know whether it will apply to people with prediabetes, type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Now, with new kinds of technologies that are coming up, new types of tissue engineering and, you know, some of the hopes that people have for stem cells and [the] like, it may be interesting to see if there are other ways, alternatives to dealing with really badly damaged hearts that would involve growing a new heart or replacing or repairing the damage d to a badly damaged heart that might make artificial hearts less important in the somewhat more distant future.

CD4 T cells are also known as «helper» cells because they signal another type of T cell, the CD8, to destroy HIV - infected cells.

«We've shown that a specific type of these cells, known as follicular helper T (Tfh) cells are not only necessary, but are a limiting factor that differentiates between an average and a potent antibody response to HIV,» says Crotty, a scientific collaborator with the Center for HIV / AIDS Vaccine Immunology & Immunogen Discovery (CHAVI - ID), a major research consortium led by The Scripps Research Institute.

All 10 patients who received the CTL119 cells experienced mild cytokine release syndrome (CRS), a known potentially lethal type of toxicity, within a few days after receiving their infusions; however, none required treatment with tocilizumab, an immunosuppressant drug that blocks the effects of the inflammatory cytokine IL - 6.

The target of the test is a type of cancer known as germ cell cancer.

Looking further into the intestinal crypts of both the transgenic and wild - type mice, the research team made what they consider a surprising finding: Not only was HMGA1 causing the stem cells themselves to self - renew or proliferate more rapidly in the transgenic animals, but it was also increasing the number of Paneth cells, a type of niche cell known to support intestinal stem cells.

They knew that they had found a new type of genetic defect, because the DNA in cancer cells from people with the altered gene was riddled with mutations.

His group focused on another type of immune cell known as primary macrophages and their response to live bacterial pathogens.

The researchers found five different sub-types of HL among the patients studied: 247 cases of the nodular sclerosis (NS) type, in which the tumour nodules are large; 105 of mixed cellularity, where a mixture of different types of inflammatory cells are involved; 58 lymphocyte rich, the sub-type with the best outcome; 68 «others»; and 143 «not otherwise specified» (NOS).

«We want to make an active miRNA dictionary for each cell type, so that if we want to isolate this kind of cell type, we know how to use this kind of switch,» he said.

They found that most cases of liver disease in people with type 2 diabetes are not alcohol - related but caused by a build - up of fat within liver cells — a condition known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

The same area has a known role in the development of T - cells, a key type of immune cell.

One key cell that is an early initiator of this allergic inflammation is known as a «type 2 innate lymphoid cell» (ILC2).

Researchers do not know if the same thing would work for other types of cancer or cancer cells lodged in other body organs.

Little has been known about the ways in which many diabetes genes work, but a study published in the journal Cell sheds light on a genetic risk component of type 1 diabetes and a new approach for keeping beta cells strong.

In contrast, lymphocytes in both types of endothelial cell grafts expressed higher levels of genes known to be involved in dampening the immune response and inducing self - tolerance.

In normal immune responses, a second type of helper cells, known as TH2, secrete another batch of cytokines, including one called interleukin - 4 (IL - 4) that turns off the cytokine release from TH1 cells.

These stem cells — known as induced pluripotent stem cells or iPS cells — can be turned into almost any specialised cell type of the human body, including the cells we need to see.